Sragow Gallery

Sragow Gallery specializes in American Art from the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, including the WPA era; African American Art and prints from the Hollander Workshop, and art from 1964 through 1972, including Abstract Expressionist prints by artists of the New York School.

The gallery works closely with collectors, both new and established in helping to build collections. We provide art advisory services as well as appraisals. We have placed works in major museum collections and our inventor

Sragow Gallery specializes in American Art from the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, including the WPA era; African American Art and prints from the Hollander Workshop, and art from 1964 through 1972, including Abstract Expressionist prints by artists of the New York School.

The gallery works closely with collectors, both new and established in helping to build collections. We provide art advisory services as well as appraisals. We have placed works in major museum collections and our inventory is consistently drawn from for major museum exhibitions and catalogues. Works include prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculpture.

Sragow Gallery was established in 1974 by Ellen Sragow, a member of the International Fine Print Dealer's Association and The Appraisers Association of America. The gallery began by exhibiting the work of then-emerging artists, Ida Applebroog, Jeff Koons, and Richard Prince, among others. Over the years, works by major photographers, installation artists, sculptors, and Contemporary painters were exhibited.

In 1982, the gallery began to exhibit works by WPA era artists. The exhibitions of works by Harry Gottlieb, Riva Helfond, Minna Citron, Leonard Pytlak, Hugh Mesibov, and Mark Freeman were instrumental in creating interest in this once-neglected period of American Art. In 1985 Ellen Sragow organized a symposium on the WPA , Ten Crucial Years: The Department of U. S. Government Sponsored Artists Programs, 1933–1943 for the Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection of Decorative and Propaganda Arts in Miami, FL. This brought together a panel of artists who had not seen each other in over 50 years and further established Sragow Gallery as a leading source of fine prints from the WPA era.

In 1984, Sragow Gallery exhibited the work of Joseph Delaney and helped to organize an exhibition of his work for Rutgers University. It created an art collection for a bank in Chicago and arranged for exhibitions in corporate settings, such as the photographs of P. H. Polk. The gallery started to focus and specialize in African American prints from the 1930s and 1940s, and has been exhibiting works by African American artists, expanding its inventory to include Contemporary drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculptures, and works by self-taught artists.

Since 1981, Sragow Gallery has been representing the Hollander Workshop. It was run by Tamarind-trained, master printer, Irwin Hollander who printed the majority of the most important American Abstract Expressionist prints of the late 1960s. Painters such as De Kooning, Guston, Motherwell, and Tworkov made some of their first lithographs in his innovative workshop. Prints by over 40 artists, including Cage, Francis, Lichtenstein, Nevelson, Rosenquist, Steinberg, and Vicente, were published by the workshop. The gallery later included prints by Michael Goldberg, Leon Goldin, George McNeil, and Milton Resnick.